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Guest Interview

Our latest interview features Isaiah Walker, a vintage motorcycle enthusiast who also knows what’s what in the electric motorcycle industry. His work was pushing new e-bike tech in the right direction. He has interesting future plans within that field.

Black clouds line the horizon. The Meriden Cooperative build their final T140 Bonneville.

January 20, 1998 - Rastus was a jet-black, Canadian-born Bombay/Burmese cat. Max Corkill was a biker from New Zealand, toiling as a sheet-metal worker in Vancouver. At a swap meet in 1989 a young girl asked Max to look after her kitten while she went to look at something, but she never returned. Corkill took him home, ran an ad in the local paper and even on the radio station, but no one responded. So, he decided to keep the cat and after considerable thought, he named the kitten Rastus. A few weeks later Max found Rastus asleep on one of the bikes in his workshop, he started it up to see whether the cat would get scared and jump off — but he didn't. So Max took the bike, with the cat, out for a slow ride around, and Rastus loved it, leaning forward with his front paws on the handlebars and back paws on the gas tank. Before you knew it the two became inseparable.

January 8, 2015 - Bonhams: The Las Vegas Motorcycle Auction at Bally's Hotel & Casino begins at 10:00am (PST). If you hurry you can still make it. So, grab your wallet...

January 7, 2009 - On a remote part of the Second Stage of the Dakar Rally, between Santa Rosa de la Pampa and Puerto Madryn, the body of 49-year-old French motorcyclist Pascal Terry is found. He had been missing for three days.

January 6, 2003 - Dodge introduces its Tomahawk V-10, 8.3-liter (505 cubic inch!) concept motorcycle at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The "superbike" features independent four-wheel suspension and an engine borrowed from the Dodge Viper sports car.

Concluding Bit

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Tune in next time for continued discussion on all things specific to sport touring or universal to motorcycling as a whole.